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07.06.2022 / 07:49

Edmonton Oilers swept by Colorado Avalanche in NHL West Final

Artturi Lehkonen scored 1:19 into overtime on Monday night to give the Colorado Avalanche a 6-5 win and four-game sweep of the Edmonton Oilers in the NHL’s Western Conference Final.

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Colorado Avalanche score wild 8-6 win over Edmonton Oilers in Game 1 of West Final

Cale Makar had three points, including a controversial goal, as the Colorado Avalanche outscored the Edmonton Oilers 8-6 to take Game 1 of the NHL’s West Final.

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Winnipeg Jets game rescheduled, Nathan Beaulieu done for season after surgery

COVID-19 protocols.The Jets will now play host to the Ottawa Senators on Monday night. That game was initially scheduled for May 7.The Jets were originally scheduled to play the Canucks on Sunday and Tuesday before the Canucks’ outbreak.Monday’s rescheduled game will start at 6:00 P.M.

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Rick Zamperin: Maple Leafs and Canadiens battle to become Kings of the North

National Hockey League season amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the newly formed, albeit temporary, North Division has not at all disappointed.The Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens are set to square off Saturday night, exactly one month after they opened the abbreviated 2020-21 season in dramatic fashion — a 5-4 overtime victory by the Leafs at Scotiabank Arena.Fast forward 30 days, and Toronto and Montreal sit one-two in their quest to become the Kings of the North and are clearly the top two teams in the division.

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NHL adding game-day rapid COVID-19 testing: reports

NHL is adding game-day rapid tests for players to its safety protocols in its latest bid to stem potential COVID-19 outbreaks, according to several reports Thursday.Rapid tests provide results within a half-hour, and will augment daily PCR testing already in place, which is similar to the protocols the NBA introduced this season.

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NHL teams not going to private restaurants in Toronto despite Ontario green light

Ontario’s sport minister says NHL teams could dine at certain restaurants not open to the public during the province’s stay-at-home order, teams in Toronto haven’t had meals outside their hotel this season.A Maple Leafs spokesperson says any team meals have taken place at a hotel.According to NHL protocols, modified buffet service must be utilized, with food service by an attendant maintaining appropriate distancing.Steve Keogh said Real Sports, attached to Scotiabank Arena, also is an option for meals, but no teams have used that location.

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Rick Zamperin: More coronavirus cases force NHL schedule changes

COVID-19 impacted the National Hockey League season again.The NHL announced the postponement of the first game since the new season began on Jan. 13, when it called off Tuesday night’s game between the Carolina Hurricanes and Nashville Predators in the Music City.NHL statement on tonight’s @Canes vs.

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Rick Zamperin: 2021 could be the year the Stanley Cup comes back to Canada

National Hockey League season Wednesday night it will mark the start of a campaign that will almost guarantee a spot for a Canadian team in the Stanley Cup final.The NHL has not only realigned its four divisions, which includes an all-Canadian group, but come playoff time the winner of the North Division will move on to the Stanley Cup semifinals.Due to the regionalized division format, set up to limit the spread of COVID-19, there isn’t an Eastern and Western Conference this season so the four division winners will be seeded No. 1 to No.

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Rick Zamperin: Coronavirus already impacts upcoming NHL season

National Hockey League just a couple of days away from starting its abbreviated 56-game regular season, there’s word that COVID-19 has impacted the schedule even before the first puck is dropped.The NHL said it is “reviewing and revising” the Dallas Stars’ schedule after revealing Friday that six players and two staff members have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.The defending Western Conference champions were slated to open their season on Thursday in Florida but the league says it is unlikely that the Stars will play a game any earlier than Jan. 19.

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Manitoba confident Winnipeg Jets can play at home, Ontario silent on NHL plans

Winnipeg Jets can play home games this season, while Ontario hasn’t made a final decision on games in the province one week ahead of the NHL’s opening night.Dr. Jazz Atwal said Wednesday that Manitoba is “confident things will move ahead as planned” during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Rick Zamperin: Thumbs up to the NHL’s division sponsorships

National Hockey League.Faced with a drastically damaged balance sheet as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to keep fans out of arenas across North America, the NHL has come to terms with four companies on a unique sponsorship package.The league is partnering with Scotiabank, Honda, Discover and MassMutual on four new division names for this year’s 56-game season — the Scotia NHL North Division, Honda NHL West Division, Discover NHL Central Division and MassMutual NHL East Division.

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Rick Zamperin: Blackhawks, and hockey fans, will miss Jonathan Toews

NHL season without their captain.The hockey world was rattled Tuesday when the Blackhawks announced that captain Jonathan Toews would not report to training camp and is out indefinitely due to a medical condition.“This offseason, I’ve been experiencing symptoms that have left me feeling drained and lethargic,” the Winnipeg native said in a statement.“I am working with doctors so I can better understand my condition.”Captain Jonathan Toews will not join the team for training camp while dealing with medical issue; no timetable set for return.#Blackhawks https://t.co/6YutfvyisX— Chicago Blackhawks (@NHLBlackhawks) December 29, 2020It is a startling revelation from one of the game’s best, and most reliable, competitors.The 32-year-old center

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Ontario’s sport minister says NHL talks ongoing as league looks to announce schedule

Ontario’s minister of sport said that discussions are still ongoing about how the all-Canadian North division will operate.Ontario is scheduled to enter a province-wide lockdown on Saturday that will last for 28 days in its most heavily populated regions. The NHL had previously announced that its new season will start on Jan.

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Rick Zamperin: Hockey fans receive an early Christmas gift from the NHL

National Hockey League and the NHL Players’ Association have formally agreed to launch the 2020-21 season, a 56-game campaign that will start Jan. 13, you can allow yourself to get excited.Yes hockey fans, after some consternation amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the coolest game on Earth will soon be back — albeit with yet another new twist.After wrapping up last season in the Toronto and Edmonton bubbles, the NHL is hoping all 31 of its franchises will be able to play in their home arenas in 2021, although numerous provincial and state health authorities still need convincing that the league can do so safely and with zero health impact on the general population.

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NHL, players’ association reach deal for 56-game season beginning Jan. 13

National Hockey League (NHL) and the NHL Players’ Association (NHLPA) have reached an agreement for the 2020-21 regular season.In a press release issued Sunday, the NHL said they have reached an agreement to play 56 games, beginning on Jan. 13, 2021, with regular-season play concluding on May 8.

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Rick Zamperin: All-Canadian NHL division may not happen

COVID-19 pandemic has taken away a lot of things in 2020 — lives and jobs being at the top of the list.It also altered the way we watched sports this year, forcing leagues to cancel or postpone their seasons, play in empty ballparks and arenas, and in some cases, in bubbles.Now there is word the pandemic could force the National Hockey League to abandon its extremely popular idea of an all-Canadian division for the 2020-21 season.

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Rick Zamperin: Winners and losers in NHL’s temporary realignment

National Hockey League prepares for the 2020-21 season by planning to rearrange its divisional groupings.Hockey fans have come to know the modern-day NHL with teams situated in the Atlantic, Metropolitan, Central and Pacific Divisions, but the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the league to think much differently when mapping out next season.It appears the season will consist of 56 games and will begin in mid-January (Jan. 13 has been floated around) and because the Canada-U.S.

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Rick Zamperin: Upcoming NHL season begins to take shape

National Hockey League season.The NHL and the Players’ Association have reportedly agreed that the collective bargaining agreement that was negotiated last summer in an effort to complete last season during the COVID-19 pandemic will remain in place for the 2020-21 season.That is a substantial move forward considering the league had recently asked the players to consider tweaking what they had already agreed to, including a proposal to defer more money and increase their escrow payments. NHL now focusing on mid-January season start date, source tells Associated Press Now that the contentious financial framework has been put to bed, both sides are looking at a potential start date for a 56-game season on Jan.

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Fred Sasakamoose leaves lasting legacy as Indigenous hockey pioneer

COVID-19.One of the first Indigenous hockey players to make it to the National Hockey League, he paved the way for athletes like Lacquette, who is the first Indigenous woman to play for Team Canada.“He definitely knocked that door down and to have someone like that do that it’s obviously inspirational to every Indigenous hockey player,” she said. Indigenous Ex-NHLer Fred Sasakamoose dead at 86 The two became acquainted while representing the First Nations hockey community at a number of different events.

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NHL GMs preparing for new economic realities brought on by COVID-19

-With files from The Canadian Press’ Donna Spencer

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Rick Zamperin: Where do the Toronto Maple Leafs go from here?

Toronto Maple Leafs‘ 2019-20 coronavirus-pandemic shortened season tick down to zero.Toronto’s exit from the National Hockey League‘s best-of-five playoff qualifier at the hands of the Columbus Blue Jackets was the latest in a long line of recent early post-season exits, even though the 3-2 series defeat wasn’t technically considered a playoff — it still felt like it.Now, just like they have after each the team’s first round playoff eliminations over the last handful of years, many Maple Leafs fans are demanding change.

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NHL pushes game back a day after Lightning, Blue Jackets go into 5th OT

league to postpone Game 1 between the Boston Bruins and Carolina Hurricanes until Wednesday at 11 a.m. ET.

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New York Rangers win NHL draft lottery, Winnipeg Jets to pick 10th

Calgary Flames defeat Winnipeg Jets to win NHL qualifying series 3 games to 1 New York, which was swept by the Carolina Hurricanes three straight in the best-of-five qualifying round, selected Finnish winner Kaapo Kakko in 2019, and has lots of firepower up front, including Artemi Panarin and Mika Zibanejad.“Really good news,” Lafreniere said on the television broadcast following the lottery.

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Rick Zamperin: NHL on the cusp of losing its two biggest superstars

National Hockey League‘s marketing department employees must be getting close to throwing a little temper tantrum as they watch the playoff qualifiers unfold.Can you blame them?The NHL’s two biggest superstars, Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby and Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid, are on the cusp of being bounced out of their respective bubbles.

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Edmonton Oilers obliterate organization’s 50/50 draw record with over $2M in sales Monday night

#Oilers fan is becoming a millionaire tonight & the game hasn't even started yet! Ticket sales will run until 10:30pm MT.Ps. Congrats to Saturday's 50/50 winner, Danielle McGale, who claimed the $381,275 prize!

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NHL reports no positive coronavirus tests from active teams

[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Teams with 52-member travelling parties entered the bubbles July 26.There were also zero positives the previous week when teams were still in their home cities for training camp.

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Rick Zamperin: Predicting the most unpredictable NHL playoffs ever

National Hockey League pressed the pause button on their season due to the coronavirus pandemic, the quest for the Stanley Cup will begin on Saturday.Welcome to Stage 4 of the NHL’s return to play protocol — the playoffs.The non-traditional 24-team tournament features a dozen teams in the bubble cities of Toronto and Edmonton and while the top four teams in each conference (Boston, Tampa Bay, Washington, Philadelphia in the East, and St.

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Rick Zamperin: 5 takeaways from Maple Leafs-Canadiens tuneup game

coronavirus pandemic and even though it was an exhibition game, it was great to see the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens back on the ice.Toronto skated to a 4-2 victory in the one and only tuneup game for each team before they launch into their respective best-of-5 Stanley Cup playoff qualifying series this coming weekend.We back. #LeafsForever pic.twitter.com/QqTOIi8984— Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) July 29, 2020Here are five takeaways from the Leafs-Habs game at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena.

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Rick Zamperin: What to look for as Toronto Maple Leafs return to action

coronavirus pandemic knocked the NHL into the proverbial penalty box, the league is gearing up for its first game action Tuesday night.Players from the 24 teams who are participating in the National Hockey League‘s 2020 restart are now in their respective bubbles in Toronto and Edmonton, two so-called secure zones that they will call home for the next few weeks as they attempt to finish one of the most challenging seasons in history.The Toronto Maple Leafs will play their first game Tuesday night, an exhibition tilt against the rival Montreal Canadiens at Scotiabank Arena, since a 2-1 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on March 10.

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Edmonton’s Rogers Place damaged by ‘significant storm’

–With files from The Canadian Press

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Rick Zamperin: Coronavirus issues in MLS should serve as warning for NHL and NBA

coronavirus cases across the United States continues to explode, it should come as no surprise that the pandemic is wreaking havoc on the MLS is Back Tournament at Disney World in Florida.The NHL and NBA should be taking notes.Two Major League Soccer teams, FC Dallas and Nashville SC, have been forced to bow out of the days-old tournament due to a flurry of their players and coaches testing positive.Just minutes before Sunday’s 9 a.m. kickoff between Toronto FC and D.C.

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Calgary Flames’ Hamonic becomes 1st NHL player to opt out of league’s plan to play during pandemic

“Earlier this evening, Travis called me to inform us that he has decided to opt out of the NHL Return to Play Program,” Flames GM Brad Treliving said in a news release. “Travis explained that due to family considerations, he has made the difficult decision not to participate in the Stanley Cup qualifier and playoffs.“While we will miss Travis in our lineup, we understand and respect his decision.”In 50 regular season games this season, Hamonic scored three goals and collected 12 points.

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford confident in NHL’s pandemic plan for hub cities

Toronto this summer, Ontario’s premier is defending his province’s decision to try to host the league in the midst of a pandemic.Doug Ford says he’s comfortable with the NHL’s plan, despite the fact British Columbia expressed some reservations about health procedures that ultimately led to Vancouver dropping out of hub-city contention.Multiple media outlets have reported Toronto and Edmonton are the league’s choices for hub cities during a 24-team resumption of play slated to start later this summer.The league hopes to start training camps in the 24 cities next week.Seven American cities and three Canadian cities started as candidates to be hub cities, but the recent surge of COVID-19 cases in the United States made an all-Canadian return

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NHL teams hope to keep COVID-19 at bay as training camps loom on the horizon

Getting to the bubbles largely unscathed by the coronavirus, however, could be the biggest challenge of all.There will be strict rules once the 24 clubs set to compete in the league’s return-to-play plan head to the hubs and are quarantined from the general public — Toronto and Edmonton are the expected destinations — but players will be free to come and go as they please during training camps slated to begin early next week.And while the league touched on the need to be prudent with regards to physical distancing outside team activities during camps in a separate document, it’s potentially a soft underbelly players, coaches and executives know could pose a risk.“The rink is the safe spot, it’s clean,” Calgary Flames general manager Brad

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Winnipeg Jets’ players back in the city and set to return to ice

#NHLJets facilities at Bell MTS Iceplex have opened to the NHL’s Phase 2 Return to Play protocols. Stay tuned to the club’s social media platforms for videos and pictures from practice.

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Rick Zamperin: NHL’s return to play plan to unfold in Toronto and Edmonton

National Hockey League manages to pull off its grand, 24-team return to play plan this summer it will all unfold in the Great White North.As negotiations intensified Wednesday between the NHL and the Players’ Association on a framework for how the COVID-19-pandemic-delayed season will resume, we learned that Toronto and Edmonton had risen to the top of the league’s list in the race to be the two hub cities.

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Kenney pushes Edmonton as NHL hub with video showing off Alberta’s Rocky Mountains

tweeted out a video showcasing Alberta’s Rocky Mountains on Monday in an effort to promote Edmonton as an ideal location as a potential NHL hub city should the hockey league resume play this season.“It’s the obvious choice to bring the @NHL to #Edmonton,” Kenney wrote in a tweet that included a 1:03-minute video that comes across as a promotional vehicle for Alberta’s mountain attractions.“We look forward to welcoming the league and players here to Alberta to take in the beautiful province we have to offer.”The first four seconds of the video shows the skyline of Alberta’s capital, which the Alberta government, the Oilers Entertainment Group and the City of Edmonton is pushing to be one of two hubs for NHL playoff games, should play resume

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Tampa Bay Lightning close facilities after three players test positive for COVID-19

Tampa Bay Lightning closed their facilities Thursday after three players and additional staff tested positive for the novel coronavirus.The closure comes some two weeks after players were allowed to return to their respective facilities to take part in voluntary on-and off-ice workouts.

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Rick Zamperin: Prime Minister cracks open door to potential NHL hub city in Canada

NHL‘s two hub locations for this summer’s Stanley Cup Playoffs have received some encouraging news.With the COVID-19 pandemic top of mind, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that the federal government is “open” to the National Hockey League operating a hub city in Canada, as long as local public health authorities allow it.Trudeau says the decision rests with the NHL and the provincial and municipal governments in which the hub cities are located.

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Edmonton Oilers break the return-to-play ice at Rogers Place

[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]“I’m kind of conflicted on that,” Benning said.“It would be such a tease for me that I can’t drive 10 minutes down the road and see my new baby.” Whenever camps open, players will have to be tested frequently, perhaps even daily.“My wife’s a nurse, so she knows how that all goes,” explained Benning. “It’s uncomfortable, but that’s part of it.“There are players who are already on the ice.

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National Hockey League unveils further details on its return-to-play plan

The NHL’s return-to-play plan came into even sharper focus Thursday.

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Rick Zamperin: These are the 4 must-watch NHL play-in series

Now that we know how the National Hockey League is hoping to execute its 24-team playoff format, and potentially when and where the post-season will be played, fans are starting to get excited.

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Rick Zamperin: Ranking the NHL’s 10 potential playoff hub cities

If the National Hockey League‘s ambitious plan to hold a 24-team playoff amid the COVID-19 pandemic does indeed go ahead late this summer it will be held in two so-called hub cities.

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Rick Zamperin: The NHL has its plan, but what will the NBA do?

Now that the National Hockey League has outlined how it plans to resume the truncated 2019-20 season during the COVID-19 pandemic, we are now waiting for the NBA to unveil its plans for when the world’s best basketball players return to the court.

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Rick Zamperin: Gary Bettman announces new details on NHL’s return-to-play plan

The National Hockey League‘s road map to the resumption of play became nearly crystal clear Tuesday afternoon.

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Coronavirus: NHL to abandon regular season, go to new playoff format if play resumes

The NHL announced Tuesday it will abandon the rest of the regular season and go straight into the playoffs with 24 teams instead of 16 if it is able to resume play.

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Rick Zamperin: NHL is nearly halfway in its return-to-play plan

With its season stuck on pause because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Hockey League has released details of Phase 2 of its return-to-play protocol.

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Rick Zamperin: Proposed NHL playoff format could include Toronto vs. Boston in Round 2, just sayin’

The National Hockey League appears to be closing in on a plan for when it ends its more than two-month hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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